Book of Following and Pairing Author: Abu al-Husayn Ahmad ibn Faris ibn Zakariyya, author of Maqayis al-Lugha and al-Mujmal Editor: Rudolf Bruno German Orientalist, from the Oxford manuscript Publisher and Place of Printing: Alfred Topelmann Press, Giessen, Germany Year of Printing: 1906 AD Edition: First, and it is the first publication of the text in history, and it came before the Egyptian edition edited by Kamal Mustafa by about forty years.